CANCELLED :: VENUE :: SWAK :: THREE MILE PILOT+OPTIGANALLY YOURS took place on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 8:00 PM - 3:00 AM
at Venue
in VANCOUVER BC. More details on the event are below.
* This show has been cancelled - Please see your original ticket seller for details*
Sealed With a Kiss Presents...
Three Mile Pilot + Optiganally Yours
Tuesday July 21st, 2009
ORIGINAL LINEUP REUNITED!
(MEMBERS OF PINBACK AND BLACK HEART PROCESSION)
Doors at 8PM
$17 Advance tickets on sale now at: Red Cat Records & All Ticketmaster Locations
:: ABOUT THE ARTIST ::
San Diego's Three Mile Pilot, is perhaps best known to the indie rock world at large for supplying key personnel to Touch & Go buzz band the Black Heart Procession. Still, they spent much of the '90s near the forefront of a surprisingly active local indie scene. Three Mile Pilot made their mark with distinctively moody, bass-centered arrangements (in fact, they started out with no guitar at all) and a prog rock aesthetic that often resulted in long, winding, multi-sectioned song structures. Their abrupt shifts in key, rhythm, and volume earned them comparisons to math rockers like Slint and Don Caballero, but their poppier moments were more akin to the Pixies or Nirvana. After several unique albums for local indie Headhunter, the band went on hiatus as its leaders focused on other projects. http://www.myspace.com/threemilepilot San Diego's Optiganally Yours began with Pea Hix's (formerly of Tit Wrench and Lucas & Friend) fascination with the Optigan, a keyboard manufactured in the early and mid-'70s by Mattel. An "optical organ," the Optigan stores its sounds -- which range from organs and strings to drum loops and sound effects -- on a collection of celluloid optical discs. Hix found his first Optigan in 1995 at a Salvation Army and eventually added a dozen more to his arsenal. He recruited his friend Rob Crow (ex-Heavy Vegetable and also a member of Thingy, Pinback, and Physics) as a collaborator, and the duo's debut album, Spotlight on Optiganally Yours, arrived two years later; its blend of spare, indie pop songwriting and production and strangely lush arrangements won critical acclaim from the likes of NME, CMJ, Melody Maker, and Cool & Strange Music Mag, among other publications. The group also contributed tracks to a benefit album for East Timor and March Records' Reproductions: Songs of the Human League before releasing their second full-length, Optiganally Yours Presents: Exclusively Talentmaker!, in early 2000 on Absolutely Kosher Records. On this album the duo played the Vako Orchestron and the Chilton Talentmaker, which were slightly varied descendants of the original Optigan. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide http://www.myspace.com/opyrs
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